Online Text and Notes in Principles of Microeconomics

Definitions and short explanations of a variety of microeconomic terms and principles, including some graphs. This site has been created to support revision of AS-level Economics. The link is to the Archive.org copy of the site.

This companion website for Economics, sixth edition supports the text book by John Sloman. It contains student resources to help those studying courses using this text and lecturer resources for those using this textbook to teach economics courses. Some of the lecturer resources require registration. Materials provided include case studies, lecture plans, animated models and workshop plans.

These are the outputs of a mini-project funded by the Economics Network, in which the first-year students at Ulster were given a minimum of lectures, with most teaching time given to Problem-Based Learning. Seven worksheets for PBL tasks are archived on this page, along with a guide sheet for teaching assistants on how to run a PBL meeting and an advice handout to students on How To Keep a Personal Development Report. The final report from the project is also available. The course was based on the Begg textbook, to which the worksheets make reference.

Definitions and short explanations of a variety of Market Failure-related terms and principles, including some graphs. This site has been created to support revision of AS-level Economics. This link is to Archive.org's copy of the site.

These three sets of worksheets were produced by an Economics Network mini-project. Each consists of a three documents in .doc format. A four-side student handout includes the case study and questions. The other documents are a sheet of answer guidelines and a four-side teaching guide. The topics are "Supermarkets under scrutiny", "Argos/Littlewoods Price fixing Agreement" and "Football shirts: A case of Unfair Competition" Permission is given for unrestricted educational use and alteration.

This course web page is a list of files for exams and handouts. The exams are from 2001 to 2003 and are in .pdf format. The handouts are in .pdf and PowerPoint formats. It supports a course on microeconomics as taught by Todd Kaplan of the University of Exeter.

This is a short guide for beginning students to five different kinds of elasticity: Price Elasticity of Demand, Price Elasticity of Supply, Income Elasticity of Demand, Cross Price Elasticity of Demand and Arc Elasticity. Links to the individual pages are to the right of the main article.

This course on Microeconomics covers individuals, firms, markets, and industries, including the topics of consumer demand, production, cost, market structures, and factor markets. Included are 20 lessons on microeconomic basics, broken up into small chunks of text. The AmosWorld site also includes a glossary and an online testing system, to which this material is linked.

This is an electronic textbook in progress, amounting to fifteen chapters as of January 2008. It is split into two parts - alternative microeconomics and basic microeconomics: at outline - each chapter is available as a PDf download.

A dozen PowerPoint presentations on basic microeconomics, making some use of animation. Topics are: an introduction to the basic concepts, circular flow, a short review of basic math skills for microeconomics, production possibilities, basic supply and demand models, basic concepts of price, income and cross elasticity, the market as an allocation process, utility theory and demand curves, the theory of production and functions, pure competition and the "ideal" of the market, profit maximization, construction of isoquant, and market power.

The Carbon Tax Center provides an explanation and justification of the carbon tax proposal, which includes useful detail on the general working of Pigovian and 'green' taxes with greenhouse gas emissions as a topical application. The site includes a presentational slide show and short non-technical papers (with supporting links) comparing the tax with market-based (tradable-quota) alternatives, giving evidence for its demand-reducing effects and explaining how its adverse distributional effects could be addressed. Offers subscription to email newsletter.

10 lectures by US economists downloadable as streamed video or MP3 audio presentations, with accompanying PowerPoint slides and related papers that pursue the issues in more depth. Two lectures are on growth (Dean Baker, Mark Weisbrot), others on US labour markets (John Schmitt), women in the labour market (Heather Boushey), trade (Mark Weisbrot), intergenerational mobility and life chances (Heather Boushey), the Federal Reserve, asset bubbles and intellectual property (all Dean Baker). The lectures are US-focused and reflect the sometimes market-critical perspective of the Center for Economic Policy and Research, a think-tank founded by Baker and Weisbrot in 1999 with an advisory board including Joseph Stiglitz and Robert Solow (not to be confused with the UK-based Centre for Economic Policy Research).

ECON100 offers various resources to support a number of text books authored or co-authored by Michael Parkin. Included are lecture notes (in PowerPoint, HTML or RTF), online quizzes, and news analysis.

This course website includes exams (with solutions) and lecture notes, both in .pdf format. It supports a course on Economic Theory 101 as taught by : Stefano DellaVigna of University of California, Berkeley, in 2004.

This set of free downloadable textbooks is available from BookBoon and they are aimed at UK economics students. The range of titles includes introductory topics such as the basics of international economics, the neo-classical growth model, econometrics and micro/macro analysis. Users are required to fill in brief personal details before they can download the PDF files of the full text of the books. They range in size from about 20 pages to 150 pages and the authors appear to be mainly European.

This website supports the 3rd edition of Economics by Joseph Stiglitz and Carl Walsh. It contains a vast array of freely available teaching and learning materials for each chapter of the book - including mini lectures, interactive tutorials, quizzes and even crossword puzzles. The site requires that you have the Macromedia Flash plugin for your browser.

Economics and the Environment presents online resources linked to the book of the same title. 'The Problem of the Homeless Salmon', which uses the example of declining fish stocks to probe ideas about common-pool resources, external costs and sustainable depletion, setting out the issues as a detective exercise and ending with multiple-choice questions. Includes the book's Introduction, which outlines market-based solutions to environmental (externality) problems, stressing the importance of property rights and incentives.

Short paper setting out conceptual and methodological differences between western mainstream (neoclassical) economics and other traditions, and discussing the contrast between the increasingly abstract, technical model-based approach adopted in academic papers and the more practical applications sought by policymakers. Written in 1997 (as background to the then-new textbook Microeconomics in Context by Goodwin, Weisskopf, Ackerman and Lancaster, designed for use in Russia during the transition from central planning), but still relevant to current methodology debates.

This is the support website for the 4th edition of Economics by Joseph E. Stiglitz, and Carl E. Walsh, produced by W.W. Norton publishing. The site contains instructors manuals, PowerPoint slides, a glossary of terms, images and testbanks, in .zip format for Windows and .sit for Macs. The site also offers course packs that can be used in the Blackboard VLE platform.

EconPort is a microeconomics digital library funded by the USA's National Science Foundation. This is their online microeconomics textbook with links to relevant software, resources in addition to text. Content under each broad topic is divided into short beginner's introductions to specific concepts, advanced material, commentary on experiments, and links.

This site uses 34 short pages with graphs, sometimes animated, to explain various aspects of elasticity. An index down the side of each page shows all the subheadings.

FreeVideoLectures brings together videos of economics courses from Universities such as Yale and Berkeley, as well as online providers like the Khan Academy. They are arranged by topics, including: international economics, trade, game theory, history of economic thought and economic demography. Items are listed by course enabling students to work through a course chronologically.

These slides are from a presentation given at an Economics Teachers' Society of South Australia professional development meeting on 27th March 2001. It considers some criticisms of economics as traditionally taught, and shows some ways in which topics such as markets and deregulation can be brought to life.

Learning material on microeconomics, to support a course given by John Adam of Queensborough Community College in New York. There are slides, explanatory text and multi-choice questions on topics such as demand and supply, elasticity, im/perfect competition and consumer surplus.

This is an online economics course produced by Carnegie Mellon University, which provides access to online course workbooks used in the full semester course on economics. This open and free version of the online workbooks does not include access to the virtual online experiments, end-of-module graded exams or to the course instructor. There are seven experiments and related workbooks on topics such as, supply and demand, monopoly and cartels and network externalities. the course is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.

This course webpage for Principles of Microeconomics at Marietta College as taught by Greg Delemeester includes lecture notes, old exams (multiple-choice and short answer) and individual trivia questions. There are also links to the course syllabus and some key economics websites.

Part of the support materials for Eco 101 - Principles of Microeconomics as taught by John Kane of SUNY Oswego. Notes from twenty lectures are available here as ordinary Web pages with graphics, as Flash videos with an audio narration and as PowerPoint presentations.

This is a 167-page introductory textbook written by a graduate student. It is available as a single PDF file, or by section. A separate maths-heavy version (Quantum Microeconomics with Calculus) is also available.

The apple market is a sample chapter from the textbook Experiments with economic principles by Bergstrom and Miller (1996), published by McGraw Hill. The chapter takes the student through a one-session experiment to illustrate the concept of the market.

This article, spread across 5 web pages, gives a layman's explanation of the winner's curse in auctions, using the examples of oil drilling rights and star baseball players.